| Formatted contents note |
PART ONE: BEGINNINGS<br/>Introduction 3<br/>Orientations 5<br/>Bookchin's Critics 6<br/>Plan of the Work • 8<br/>1 Environments, Cities and Post-Scarcity Worlds 12<br/>The Political Life of an American Radical 12<br/>Contemporary Issues 14<br/>Neither Washington nor Moscow 15<br/>The Problem of Chemicals in Food 16<br/>Our Synthetic Environment 17<br/>Emerging Themes in Bookchin's Early Writings 18<br/>Post-Scarcity Politics and Ecology as Revolutionary<br/>Thought 19<br/>Beyond the New Left 24<br/>Mapping the Arc of Bookchin's Work 24<br/>Intellectual Influences 26<br/>PARTTWOiTHE LEGACY OF DOMINATION<br/>2 Hierarchy, Domination, Nature: Bookchin's Historical<br/>Social Theory 31<br/>Marxism and 'Bourgeois Sociology' 32<br/>From Social Classes and the State to Social Hierarchy<br/>and Social Domination 34<br/>The Outlook of Organic Society 36<br/>The Emergence of Hierarchy 37<br/>A 'Legacy of Domination' and a 'Legacy of Freedom' 39<br/>Considering Bookchin's Historical Social Theory 40<br/>Organic Society 1: Vagaries and Inconsistencies 42<br/>Organic Society II: Anthropological Evidence and<br/>Methodological Concerns 45<br/>After Ecological Romanticism 47<br/>Social Hierarchy/Social Domination 48<br/>Social Hierarchy, Social Domination and the Idea of<br/>the Dominating of Nature by Humans 50<br/>Dominant Ideologies and Actual Relations with Nature 52<br/>Time, Space, Social Production and Social Ecologies 55<br/>Domination, Liberation, and the Production,<br/>Reproduction and Enframing of Active Nature(s) 56<br/>Domination/Producing/Appropriating Nature 59<br/>3 Social Ecology as Modem Social Theory 62<br/>The Emergence of Capitalism 62<br/>Mapping the Contours of 'Advanced' Capitalism 64<br/>Developing a Critique of 'Advanced' Capitalism 65<br/>Defining the Environmental Agenda 70<br/>The Critique of Neo-Malthusianism 70<br/>Causality and Problem Definition in Socio-Ecological<br/>Critique<br/>Socio-Ecological Critique without Malthus 75<br/>Post-Scarcity Ecology 77<br/>The Virtues of Bookchin's Approach to Socio-Ecological<br/>Critique<br/>4 Capitalism and Ecology<br/>The 'Grow or Die' Thesis<br/>Bookchin's Macro Eco-Crisis Theory<br/>Social Ecology, Political Ecology and the Sociology of<br/>Environmental Justice<br/>The Sociology of Ecological Modernisation and its<br/>Critics<br/>Climate Change, Green Governmentality and Nature<br/>as an Accumulation Strategy<br/>PARTTHREEiTHE LEGACY OF FREEDOM<br/>t Ethics and the Normative Grounds of Critique 101<br/>Ecology and Revolutionary Thought 102<br/>Holism, Spontaneity, Non-Hierarchy 103<br/>Developing Dialectical Naturalism 104<br/>Humanity and the Natural World 107<br/>First Nature, Second Nature and Free Nature 108<br/>'Nature' as the Grounds or Matrix for Ethics 109<br/>Social Ecology, Scientific Ecology and Evolutionary<br/>Theory 110<br/>'Non-Hierarchical' and 'Mutualistic' Nature? 113<br/>Metaphors and Nature 117<br/>The Ecological Ethics of Social Ecology 118<br/>Social Ecology versus Deep Ecology 120<br/>Hybrid Natures and Active Subjects 123<br/>6 Urbanisation, Cities, Utopia 127<br/>'Crisis in Our Cities' 127<br/>Reification and the Unlimited City 129<br/>'The Limits of the City' 130<br/>The Humanist Concept of the City in History 131<br/>The City as a Human[el Community: Envisaging<br/>Ecotopia 134<br/>Bookchin's Critique of the Limitless City 137<br/>Social Ecology and the New Urbanism 138<br/>Suburbs, Ex-Urbs and Social Ecology 143<br/>Eco-Comijiunalism or a Pluralist Eco-Urbanism? 145<br/>Social Ecology and Technology 147<br/>Free Nature: Blending or Maintaining Demarcations? 148<br/>Dissolving or Retrofitting the Modern Metropolis? 150<br/>Utopian Dialogue as 'Public Event' 152<br/>7 Citizens, Politics, Democracy 155<br/>The Po/is and the Political 156<br/>Zoon Politikon, Paideia and Philia 157<br/>The Legacy of Freedom 158<br/>The Rise of the Free Cities, Neighbourhood Communes<br/>and City Confederations 160<br/>The Municipal Route to Modernity 162<br/>Libertarian Municipalism: From Here to There 163<br/>The History/Histor{ies) of Civic Freedom 164<br/>From Dionysus to Philia 169<br/>Polls an<^ Cosmopolis 172<br/>Transparency and Complexity 174<br/>Between the Heroic and the Imminent 176<br/>PART FOUR: ENDINGS<br/>Conclusion . 181<br/>Re-enchanting Humanity, Disenchanted Bookchin 181-<br/>Breaks, Transitions, Excommunications 184<br/>(Harsh) Judgments 187<br/>New Beginnings, or More Considered Judgments 188<br/>Lessons, Legacies and Traces 193 |
